Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Understanding capitalism and explaining its inherent
harmfulness to others does not require an advanced degree or superior
insight. This isn't about vague, inapplicable concepts like "good"
or "evil” and it certainly has nothing to do with the
fantasies bandied about by economics professors.

It's all about design.

Capitalism is an economic system based on perpetual
growth and the relentless exploitation of what we've come to call
"natural resources." By definition, such an approach is
unsustainable, cannot be reformed, and is thus, anti-life.

To gain access to and control of resources, capitalism
requires brutal, sustained military interventions (or the threat
thereof). The U.S. Department of Defense, for example, is the world’s
largest, most dangerous military power and the planet's worst
polluter and eats up about half of all U.S. federal tax dollars.

Military interventions (or the threat thereof) lead to
wars, war crimes, the propping up of authoritarian regimes, poverty
and repression, environmental devastation, and eventually…
corporate dominion over resources.

Capitalism -- in its predatory pursuit of profit --
requires humans to dominate humans and humans to dominate non-humans
and humans to dominate the landscape… until there's nothing left.

Resources are finite. They cannot/will not be
replicated in a laboratory. Exploiting, poisoning, and consuming the
ecosystem alters the delicate and symbiotic balance of the natural
world -- which only leads to further devastation.

While other economic systems may address some of the
vast human inequalities inherent in a capitalist society, unless such
a system is designed in synchronicity with our shared ecosystem, it
will do nothing to prevent the looming economic/social/environmental
collapse.

To be anti-capitalist is to recognize the urgent need
to begin the process of creating a new system -- a system not for
sale to the highest bidder; not based on celebrity, material
consumption, physical beauty, or military conquest; a system that
promotes unity and collective action while maintaining individuality
and independence; a system that challenges us to think for ourselves
and about others; a system that understands the connection between
human behavior and non-human life.

To have any chance of
securing a future, we must become dedicated and united
anti-capitalists - which for this commentator means world socialism.

Can i helpfully suggest you change your blog template. The current one is a little difficult to read clearly. But i do get the impression that you are influenced by the Zeitgeist Project. We are of course share the same objective but differ on our approaches to achieve it.

Perhaps this article can explain to you our analysis of TZMhttp://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2009/07/zeitgeist-movement-some-personal.html